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Rexroad, Zachariah Pierpont (b. 1842)
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The History of Upshur County West Virginia
From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time
by W. B. Cutright
Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907

Page 560

ZACHARIAH PIERPONT REXROAD, was born at Harrisville, July 8, 1842,
son of Addison Rexroad and Catherine Sinnett, a native of Pendleton
County, Va., was raised on a farm and in a store and at the outbreak
of the war, enlisted in Company B, 6th West Virginia Volunteers,
enlisted August 20, 1861, served throughout the war, was hit on the
head by one bullet, which left a visible scar from which disability
he draws a pension. In 1864, while on a furlough he met and married
Elizabeth Pugh, at Clarksburg, and to this union have been born
fourteen children, ten now living: Ella, the wife of Giles Hannatt,
Icy May, wife of Henry Brinker; Hanna, wife of Andrew Layfield;
Elizabeth, wife of Andrew Jackson; Charles, George William, Wheeler,
Olive, wife of Clifton Sears, and Harvey, who married Tracy Brinker.
Mr. Rexroad is of German extraction on his father's side and Irish
on his mother's, his great grandfather, Patrick Sennett, being a
Revolutionary soldier.

Mr. Rexroad entered the army as Orderly Sergeant, and was promoted
to Second Lieutenant before the war closed.

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Register of Marriages, Harrison County, WV (Page 33)
Z. P. Rexroad 
   age 21y-11m-20d
   born in Ritchie Co., W.Va.
   son of Addison & Catharine Rexroad
   occup: Clerk, was Soldier
Mary C. Pew 
   age 21y-10m-24d
   born in Ritchie Co., W.Va.
   daughter of Isaac & Elizabeth Pew
were married June 18, 1864 in Clarksburg, WV 
by E. L. Nicholson

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